If you missed opening night of Bernadette Smith’s Translucent Interactions, a photo media exploration of light, reflection and refraction, Disorder Gallery presents another opportunity to meet the artist and learn about her methods and inspirations.

Join us at 3pm on Saturday August 31st, to chat with the artist while you enjoy a glass of Milldale Wines award winning 2008 Semillon.

D/O.34 Translucent Interactions is on now through August 31st at Disorder Gallery, so be sure to take in these sparking images of light while you still can.

Photomedia artist Bernadette Smith presents Translucent Interactions, an exhibition that examines the phenomenon of water and glass refractions, by recording the scattering and polarization of light passing through translucent spaces.

“Counteracting a dominant anthropocentric view of the universe, my photomedia series explores the viscerality of light to emphasise non-human agency. I photographed light waves interacting within heritage glass and different states of water at close range. Initially, I focused on patterns of water in various forms before discovering an aurora-like display within my 19th Century studio window pane at the former Callan Park asylum. By day I would look through this open window, surveying glimpses of trees and boats on the far shore. Then one afternoon I returned when it was shut and noticed how slanted sunlight penetrated the undulating glass.

The fading sunlight was partially obscured by nearby branches, swaying in the wind, making the window pane flicker between light and shadow. In this liminal zone of uncertainty, starry trails punctured the darkness as light bounced around the textured glass, transforming itself in a process of disintegration. Entranced by this visual drama happening before my eyes as the sun dipped towards the horizon, I reached for my camera to record these fleeting light diffractions. These miniature light patterns, happening regardless of whether humans are there to witness it, illustrate the interconnectedness of the visible and invisible world.”

Bernadette Smith is a Sydney based contemporary artist using photomedia to explore the optical phenomenon of water and glass refractions. Emphasising the non-human world, these phenomena are recorded through macro photography and transposed to different media such as paper and metal objects. Most recently her work was selected for Eden Unearthed 2018-2019 an exhibition of artworks at Eden Gardens Sydney, New Artists at Linton and Kay Gallery in Perth, Sunstudio Emerging Photographers Prize, Art on the Greenway, Electrofringe Festival, Harbour Sculpture Prize, Fishers Ghost Art Award and SCA Showcase at Verge Gallery, University of Sydney. She is currently completing Higher Degree by Research studies at Sydney College of the Arts and her upcoming graduation exhibition at Sydney College of the Arts opens in September 2019.

Please join us for opening night of D/O.33 Translucent Interactions on Thursday August 15th from 6-8pm and enjoy a glass of wine from Milldale Wines.

Disorder Gallery presents the striking work of John Dobson in D/O.31 Visual Arts Icons.

"Visual Arts Icons is an ongoing personal project in which I pay homage to and photographically reference icons from the visual arts, including painting, photography and cinema. Giving each the same degree of reverence, the work I reference ranges from highbrow classical art, such as the work of Leonardo da Vinci, to lowbrow kitsch and erotica, such as the work of Vladimir Tretchikoff and Tom of Finland." - John Dobson

Preview D/O.31 Visual Arts Icons on Wednesday June 26th from 12-6pm or join us for opening night on Thursday June 27th from 6-8pm at Disorder Gallery.

John Dobson’s Visual Arts Icons will also be during the upcoming Sydney East Art Walk. So if you can’t make it to opening night then you can catch the final day of Visual Arts Icons and visit 16 of our wonderful neighbors on July 13th from 12-4pm.